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You still don't get accurate data if you just count bodies. The issue here is every death is attributed to COVID-19 if the virus is present even if the actual

You still don't get accurate data if you just count bodies. The issue here is every death is attributed to COVID-19 if the virus is present even if the actual reason is some other underlying health condition. Given that most victims are elderly and had serious pre-existing conditions this leads to massive mortality rate over-estimation. You also cannot reliably compare EU/US data with Chinese: initially most deaths and cases of pneumonia in China were attributed to other illnesses. Secondly, Chinese government is notorious for flat-out lying in their official stats.

acqq 7y ago
> The issue here is every death is attributed to COVID-19 if the virus is present even if the actual reason is some other underlying health condition. That what you claim provably doesn't happen. Even old people simply don't die that fast otherwise, and we also have the data of the people who can't breath and have to be admitted to the hospitals: there were never that many cases before, happening that fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F_ENG.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F... (the numbers were compared by the Italian National Biotechnology Association, each bar is one week of time)